Quotes about Engagement

It seems to me almost before the Bible says anything else, it is saying that—how important it is to be alive and to pay attention to being alive, pay attention to each other, pay attention to God as he moves and as he speaks. Pay attention to where life or God has tried to take you.

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Before I was elected to Congress, I had the honor of serving as the president of the Congregation Ner Tamid in Henderson, the largest Reform Synagogue in Southern Nevada. During my tenure, I witnessed firsthand the beauty in our country's religious diversity and how community engagement strengthens America.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

The people that usually have the most trouble with my books are the ones that pick them apart from a theological point of view.

I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.

To be the student of a teacher was to commit yourself to living in the same atmosphere and breathing the same air; there was nothing intermittent about it. Being

To engage with the Church's past is to see something of the Church's future.

It stares you in the face. No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.

Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance.